Explorers Poems: First Edition (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Unclipped. First Edition. First ed.; 160 p., clean and unmarked within on strong unaged paper; former owners' name on pictorial front end page; binding firm; many color ill. and photos; boards have minimal wear; pictorial d.j. has some chipping at corners and at crown and foot of spine panel, but further wear prevented by Brodart cover.…

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A paperback book in fine condition, dated 2009. Poems from South West England.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First edition. A very scarce first edition volume of verse from Australian poet Catherine Martin, featuring her retelling of the Burke and Wills expedition. The very scarce first edition of this nineteenth century collection of poems from 'M. C.', Catherine Martin, an Australian poet and novelist.The titular poem 'The Explorers' is a lengthy narrative verse subtitled 'A Chronicle of the Burke and Wills Expedition', and recounts the fateful expedition of nineteen men who intended to cross mainland Australia in the early 1860sWith the former owner's inscription 'M.M' to the head of the title page.This was Martin's first and only volume of poems. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bumping to back strip head, light shelf wear to back strip tail, and light rubbing to joints. Boards bright. Front hinge starting, with board holding firm. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to head of title page. Pages generally clean and bright, with only the odd light handling mark. Pages uncut to top edge. Very Good. None (illustrator). book.…

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued. 1st Edition. Very Good ++ , Most Pages Uncut To Top Edge, Corners Lightly Bumped And Some Minor Creasing Of The Front Cloth Tipped-In Errata Slip Pp 270.